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Detailed fieldwork reports from the first season of the Van expedition and correspondence between the Blisses and Lakes, including a set of 10 photographs from the expedition sent as a Christmas greeting. Primarily authored by Silva Lake, the fiel...

Detailed fieldwork reports from the second season of the Van expedition and correspondence between the Blisses and Lakes. Edited by Bertrand Martin Tipple, Silva Lake’s father, the fieldwork reports list fieldwork staff and detail progress at Van ...

Primarily correspondence between Kirsopp Lake and Mildred Barnes Bliss regarding sponsorship of Van expedition. Folder includes a “Plan for Archaeological and Manuscript Research from September 1937 – September 1942” with projected expenses totali...

Primarily correspondence between Kirsopp Lake and Mildred Barnes Bliss regarding an accounting of the Blisses’ previous financial contributions to the Lakes. Folder also includes a status report on Studies and Documents, accompanied by a request f...

Based on the film edge codes, clothing, and garden scenes, sections of the film can be dated to the mid-1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. The combined footage illustrates Dumbarton Oaks when it was still a private residence, as well as when it became an in...

The majority of this collection consists of photographs of Palaeologan manuscript illumination, which were published by Hans Belting. It also consists of research notes, correspondence, and photographs of other Late Byzantine manuscripts. A major...

This collection gathers together photographs of Byzantine and Armenian manuscript illuminations photographed by the Library of Congress, scholars, museums and other photo archives. A significant portion of the collection reflects the research of A...

The collection contains correspondence among Robert Woods and Mildred Barnes Bliss and Kirsopp and Silva Lake, most commonly letters between Kirsopp Lake and Mildred Barnes Bliss. There are also project proposals, fieldwork reports, and a single s...

This collection is divided into five (5) series, and contents are roughly arranged in chronological order. First, it highlights Paul Underwood’s early research interests as a graduate student at Princeton University in the mid-1930s and as a Junio...

This collection documents the architectural survey of Hagia Sophia in Istanbul, Turkey, conducted by Robert L. Van Nice from the late 1930s to the 1980s. The project was sponsored by William Emerson, Dean of Architecture at the Massachusetts Insti...

Sirarpie Der Nersessian was one of the pioneers of Armenian-Byzantine art history. She established the methodology for the study of Armenian illuminated manuscripts and incorporated Armenian art into the scope of Byzantine art history. Over the co...

This collection contains fieldwork records and papers produced by the staff of the Byzantine Institute and Dumbarton Oaks, as well as Thomas Whittemore and Paul Underwood, between the 1920s and 2000s. It is comprised of correspondence, minutes, f...